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Jump Super Anime Festa tour to run "tearful episode" in 6 Japanese cities This year's 34th issue of Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine is announcing on Saturday that the Gintama anime will return for a one-episode special.

The September issue of V Jump, on sale in Japan the 19th, is slated to announce that the next Dragon Ball Z anime movie is planned to debut in the 2015 Golden Week block of spring holidays (April 29 to May 5).

Japan already has loads of Pikachu- and Pokémon-themed products, whether that's soft drinks, candy, or even curry. But typically, those simply have a Pocket Monster slapped on the labelling. The official Pikachu Cafe is a tad different.

The above image should actually read "New Challanger: Marie" as this week's issue of Famitsu magazine reveals that Marie is the newest playable character to appear in Persona 4 Arena Ultimax. According to the report, it seems like Marie will be ...

There's been a lot of hype over virtual reality headsets after Sony introduced the Project Morpheus earlier this year, but Senran Kagura producer introduces his own take on the virtual reality device… okay, it's not really a real thing, but we can...

Back in March XSEED Games revealed its plans to bring Akiba's Trip 2 to North America as Akiba's Trip: Undead & Undressed. Thankfully European fans won't be left out in the cold, because NIS America will be bringing the PlayStation 3 and PS Vita g...

While some people are arguably Frozen'd out, the movie's popularity doesn't look like it will go anywhere anytime soon, what with limited edition PS4s and karaoke rankings. Niconico user おかっち took it one step further by using the Miku Miku Dance a...

Famous Japanese confectioner Glico has been bringing us iconic Japanese sweets like Pretz and Pocky for decades. Now they have a real treat in store for us, thanks to an extra-special line-up to celebrate the upcoming 3-D movie, Stand By Me Doraemon.

Wolverine & Sabretooth face off this week after Cyclops & Beast already made cameos The Marvel Disk Wars: The Avengers television anime will start an X-Men arc in the 16th episode ("Seigyo Funō no Yajū-tachi" or Uncontrollable Beasts) on Wednesday.

Second 'Magi: Adventure of Sinbad' Anime OVA Gets New Promo Posted by Chris Beveridge July 14, 2014 at 08:30 PM Magi While the main Magi series has finished its two seasons, the spinoff manga series Magi: Sinbad no Bōken continues to do well.

Studio Ghibli's Princess Mononoke aired on NTV on Friday, July 4 at 9:00 p. m. and earned a 21. 9% rating. Ju-On 2, from the horror film series that inspired The Grudge, aired on TV Tokyo on Saturday, July 5 at 3:20 a.

Nobunaga is SO out of style. It's time for a new revolution! I know you all expect me to say some engrish line of Date's to open this post so screw it, I'm just going to go the cliche route and give in to easy lead-ins.

You might know that Pikachu in the Pocket Monster anime now looks, well, like a changed Pokémon. But this isn't the only instance of different Pikachus. Pikachu, the iconic Pokémon from Pocket Monsters, looks slightly different these days.

As announced last week, Square Enix is shrinking Dragon Quest X down to Nintendo 3DS in Japan. Following up that news is the first introduction video, which shows a bit of how the MMO looks on Nintendo's portable.

King Records has posted a short version of the music video for Yui Ogura's "Tinkling Smile," the song featured as the ending for Encouragement of Climb Second Season. A single will be released August 13th.

OP Sequence OP: 「共鳴のTrue Force」 (Kyoumei no True Force) by Harada Hitomi 「剣と学院と火猫少女」 (Ken to Gakuin to Hineko Shoujo) "The Sword, the School, and the Fire Cat-Girl" Is it action? Is it ecchi? Is it harem?

The latest characters to join the roster of the upcoming Super Smash Bros. for Wii U and 3DS are Lucina and Robin from Fire Emblem: Awakening and Captain Falcon. This brings the character roster with recent additions including Pac-Man, Lady Palu...

Recommended Eyecandy+ Reading: July 14, 2014 Ray's Picks You know it's been awhile since we last French ~♡~ Kissed, so…. – モーニングBerryz48 MB shares the latest issue of Young Champion, which cover features the AKB subunit French Kiss.

Tuesday • July 15, 2014 • by samth1815 On July 12, 2014, VoxWave announced that they were planning "A New Beginning For ALYS" via blog post. This blog post simply said- Hello everyone ! Long time not see !

A new preview video for the upcoming Pok&eacute;mon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire introduces Champion Steven and his Mega Metagross, Hoenn region gym leader Roxanne, and the new Pikachu Cosplay feature of the game, slated to launch for the Nintend...

Misadventure of a Skull Leader It is in my interest that I must get a proper figure of a Valkyrie especially the ones from Macross Frontier (I got one Plamo version of Saotome Alto's YF-25F Armoured Messiah Valkyrie as well as a Revoltech VF-1S be...

Viz Media added Ranmaru Kotone's manga adaptation of Mamoru Hosoda's The Girl Who Leapt Through Time anime film. The one-volume The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (Toki o Kakeru Shōjo: Tokikake) manga is currently available digitally for US$4.

The works of Studio Ghibli are almost universally loved and respected, but there is one interesting criticism detractors lob against Japan's premier anime production house. Barring the occasional music video or video game art design project, Ghibl...

Initially, Azure Striker Gunvolt was going to have English voice-acting when it released in North America, but developer Inti Creates recently revealed over Twitter that this is no longer the case. "I said that North American ver has English voice.

Jul14 A resonating terror raises its head. Remember my fangirling about this on our Summer preview? Well, if you didn't, you should because I raved about it too much for my own good. When I have this much of expectation from a series, it either ta...

Confession time: I haven't played one of Tecmo Koei's Warriors games since 2006's Samurai Warriors 2. Since then, the army-fighting, Gate Captain-killing, horseback-riding/run-over-every-fool-on-foot series continued into the current generation of...

Capcom will bring Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate to Tokyo Game Show. The Nintendo 3DS game will be playable and attendees will get to play quests that feature new monsters in Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate. Monster Hunter fans in Japan can also look forwa...

'Kusen Madoushi Kouhosei no Kyoukan' Light Novels Getting Anime Adaptation Posted by Chris Beveridge July 14, 2014 at 04:36 PM Fantasy-ish light novels are making the leap to anime a bit more these days and the latest to do so is the series Kusen ...

Following this morning's reveal of Lucina, Robin and Captain Falcon as playable characters in the new Super Smash Bros. , Nintendo have shared screenshots for all three, which you can view below. Note that Chrom is not a playable character in th...

Bloody killer anime Akame Ga Kill has busted out some skimpy bikini service merely 2 episodes into its run, depicting the beautifully buxom heroine in a cute white mizugi – with more of the killing action to resume at a later date, presumably.

Tekken 7 confirmed! ! ! ! ! However, the announcement seems to have gotten ahead of the official one as a video was leaked via AOL before Tekken Project development team lead Katsuhiro Harada was supposed to make the official announcement later to...